Elise Perrault

I am a doctoral student in Planning and Decision Analysis. I am interested in urban infrastructures and the politics of everyday spaces and objects, with a focus on how users and publics are constituted as political and situated entities. Drawing on perspectives from science and technology studies (STS), urban and regional studies, and feminist theory, I examine how infrastructures organise urban life and mediate relations between groups and institutions.

My doctoral project, currently titled The Publicness of Public Transport: Socio-material Production of Shared Mobility, explores the public expansion of public transport services in early 20th-century Stockholm. It traces the development, negotiations, and materialisation of new technologies—such as vehicles and fare schemes—designed to accommodate or enrol new types of publics, and the contestation they give rise to.

I have supervised master's students with interests in public transport, public spaces, urban culture, and citizen participation.